Background
Davenport, Guy Mattison was born on November 23, 1927 in Anderson, South Carolina. Son of Guy Mattison and Marie (Fant) Davenport.
(Using juxtapositon and collage, Guy Davenport creates bri...)
Using juxtapositon and collage, Guy Davenport creates brilliant assemblages that adhere into four stories that illuminate how one's elusive sexual nature can be hidden and paradoxically revealed by outer appearances, and one novella that completes his trilogy begun by Apples and Pears and The Hules Verne Steam Balloon.
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(1981 printing, softback. Pages and cover in very good con...)
1981 printing, softback. Pages and cover in very good condition with slight usage and shelf wear. No markings, stains or clippings. Shipped with tracking and care.
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(Dust jacket notes: "The painting of Balthus, enigmatic, p...)
Dust jacket notes: "The painting of Balthus, enigmatic, poetic, and controversial, is both deeply traditional and radically modern. In tracing some of its kinship with the poetry of Rilke (Balthus's childhood mentor), with Picasso and others, Guy Davenport attempts in this set of meditations written over several years in his notebooks to place Balthus as the modern master in whose hands the great tradition of Western paintings now principally lies. These terse notes suggest readings of several of the major paintings, trace themes and recurring images, and pose speculative ideas about the meaning and nature of Balthus. These notes are not an orderly argument by an art critic but a progression of responses, more or less objective, by a writer who sees Balthus as a great poet as well as a great painter."
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(Hardly the typical essay collection, The Hunter Gracchus ...)
Hardly the typical essay collection, The Hunter Gracchus is better described as a collage of ideas, commentary, and criticism from an eclectic stylist whose sentences ring with clarity and originality. Moving effortlessly from snake handling to Wallace Stevens, these essays take delight in an immense range of topics, including art and architecture, religion, and literature. In one essay, Davenport recalls a lunch with Thomas Merton at the Ramada Inn, where Merton, already the world's most famous Trappist monk, drank several martinis and held forth on the architecture of Buddhist temples. In another, Davenport finds in postwar modernism a catalogue of our lost innocence. In the stunning title essay, he maps out the world of a posthumously published story by Franz Kafka.
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(Ranging over art and architecture, religion, and literatu...)
Ranging over art and architecture, religion, and literature, these essays create an extraordinary collage of ideas, commentary, and criticism from one of this country's most brilliant writers. An eclectic stylist who crafts sentences like no one else, Davenport will fascinate "people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things".
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(Apples and Pears is Davenport's first novel-length work o...)
Apples and Pears is Davenport's first novel-length work of fiction; told in the form of a journal and sketchbook, with thirty-two original drawings by the author. The drawings complement the journal entries in exploring the relationships between the three principal characters. Together they try to revive Fourier's theories of social harmony, individual freedom, and self-realization. Other stories include The Bowman of Shu, Fifty-seven Views of Fujiyama, The Chair, and four more. Very nice volume
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( Mixtures of myth and fable, these tales have their orig...)
Mixtures of myth and fable, these tales have their origins in Plutarch, Montaigne, The Acts of the Apostles, Theokritos, and the daily newspaper. Eclogues is a delight, and Guy Davenport proves a companionable and witty guide.
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Davenport, Guy Mattison was born on November 23, 1927 in Anderson, South Carolina. Son of Guy Mattison and Marie (Fant) Davenport.
Bachelor of Arts, Duke U., 1948; Bachelor of Letters, University of Oxford, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1961.
Instructor English, Washington University, St. Louis, 1952-1955; tutor, Harvard University, 1957-1960; assistant Professor of English, Haverford (Pennsylvania) College, 1960-1963; Professor of English, U. Kentucky, Lexington, 1963-1991; retired, U. Kentucky, Lexington, 1991.
(Using juxtapositon and collage, Guy Davenport creates bri...)
(In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Dav...)
(Hardly the typical essay collection, The Hunter Gracchus ...)
(Ranging over art and architecture, religion, and literatu...)
(Apples and Pears is Davenport's first novel-length work o...)
( Mixtures of myth and fable, these tales have their orig...)
(Stories about scientists and philosophers, including Sovi...)
(Dust jacket notes: "The painting of Balthus, enigmatic, p...)
(Format Paperback Subject Literary Collections Publisher N...)
(Jesus was a street preacher who taught through story and ...)
(Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays)
(long poem, illustrated by the author)
(1981 printing, softback. Pages and cover in very good con...)
(Book by Davenport, Guy)
(Book by Guy Davenport)
(hardcover book)
(NY 1974 1st. 8vo., 261pp., boards. Owner signed on front ...)
Served with Air Corps United States Army, 1950-1952.